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MEF Global Consumer Trust Report 2015 findings announced
MEF has announced the results of its third annual Global Consumer Trust Report, which analyses data from 15,000 mobile media users in 15 countries across five continents... read more>>



ICT
Plans to expand IBM Research - Africa
IBM has announced plans to expand IBM Research - Africa with a new laboratory in Joburg beginning April 2015... read more>>
Huawei to up investment and staff in SA
Gwede Mantashe has visited Huawei's headquarters for talks with Huawei Senior Vice-President Dafeng Li on deepening cooperation in building out South Africa's national telecommunications network and ICT infrastructure... read more>>
Business invited to enter annual awards
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is inviting South African businesses to submit their entries for the 3rd Annual South African Premier Business Awards... read more>>
Cyber Security
Protection of company data should be a top priority
According to the 2014 Metrofile Information and Records Management Trends Index, of which 91% of respondents were Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), 14% of businesses lost crucial company data within the past few months... read more>>
Report finds that Brazilian cybercrime sounds a warning for SA
Trend Micro researchers investigated the Brazilian cyber-underground and the latest tactics being used by cyber criminals in Brazil... read more>>
What you need to know about mobile retail fraud

Leigh Andrews

You know the field of digital security is booming when there's a need for the day job titled 'retail industry fraud expert'. These are people like Aaron Press, director of e-commerce and payments at LexisNexis Risk Solutions... read more>>
Data Management
Mapping the right data strategy
Traditional storage models are quickly becoming obsolete as companies require instant access to increasing volumes of mission-critical data... read more>>
Hardware
Is the future in flash, or is the hard drive here to stay?

Kalvin Subbadu

With data volumes continuing to increase at an unprecedented rate, capacity has become a critical criterion when it comes to selecting data storage solutions... read more>>
Internet
[Learn Accounting] It's about people, team fit and technology

Jessica Taylor

At Tuesday's Learn Accounting launch, Jacqui Kew, Associate Professor at the UCT College of Accounting, explained that students are of the mindset that achieving very high marks is the most important thing... read more>>
Rwanda strives to increase citizens' access to mobile broadband technologies
The Rwandan Ministry of Youth and ICT, together with the GSMA, have announced an agreement to undertake a series of initiatives to increase citizens' access to mobile broadband technologies across the country... read more>>
South African first township BMX oval gets ICT facility
It's the MTN SA Foundation's mandate to connect communities and provide people with the tools to create a better life for themselves. In so doing, the Foundation has partnered with the Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy to establish an ICT facility and upgrade South Africa's first township BMX oval in Khayelitsha... read more>>
Services
Google Helpouts shuts down: Are live video tutorials viable?

Edzai Conilias Zvobwo

Google has announced that it will be shutting down Helpouts on 20 April 2015... read more>>
Software
Africa Business App launched by KPMG
A new Africa Business App has been launched by the KPMG Global Africa Practice. It will provide businesses and investors with seamless access to the very latest Africa information about doing business across the continent... read more>>
Government launches high-tech mobile app
Communications Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has unveiled a mobile app aimed at putting a wealth of information and services at the fingertips of techno-savvy South Africans... read more>>
Round table defines successful mobile apps
Mobile enterprise apps boost productivity by enabling employees, customers and partners to complete tasks and advance processes at any time, and any place... read more>>
EnterpriseWorx becomes K2 Master Certified Partner
EnterpriseWorx has announced that it has completed the K2 Masters programme and has become the first K2 Master Certified Partner in South Africa... read more>>
Telecommunications
What does Unified Communications mean for VoIP?

Mitchell Barker

After seeing a television commercial for Apple's new iPhone 6, a friend in the US noted that it featured someone speaking on the handset and then quipped: "People actually still do that?"... read more>>
International
British MPs call for internet ban on anti-Semitism
LONDON, UK: British lawmakers have called for people who post racist and anti-Semitic comments online to be banned from social media sites following an upsurge in abuse... read more>>
Vietnam forces anti-graft news website offline
HANOI, VIETNAM: The website of an outspoken Vietnamese newspaper has had its licence revoked after publishing articles that 'abuse freedom and democratic rights', authorities said this week.... read more>>
Change of internet regulator must happen before US 2016 polls
SINGAPORE: Plans to transfer control of Internet overseer ICANN from US hands to a globally representative body could be jeopardised... read more>>
Newsweek Twitter feed hijacked by pro-IS hacker
WASHINGTON, US: Newsweek's Twitter feed was briefly hijacked on Tuesday by hackers who displayed messages supporting the Islamic State group... read more>>
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Africa
DR Congo's small firms bear the brunt of mobile services block
KINSHASA, DRC: Sales are down and business is slow - small entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo are bearing the brunt of an official clampdown on mobile Internet services and text messages... read more>>
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Jobs offered
Lead Analyst Programmer - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced part-time/full-time lead analyst programmer (Ref. IT/041/0215.) Applications close: 20 February 2015 Read more >>



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